Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Synopsis

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embark son an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.

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I caught up with Blunt a few weeks ago to talk primarily about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, how she built her clipped, prim character and how the film's humor took her by surprise. But we also talked about her adjustment to improv and intimate filmmaking in Your Sister's Sister, and how Segel and director Nicholas Stoller gave her a major role in developing the script for The Five Year Engagement

Katey Rich
Apr 17, 2012

Emily Blunt Talks Learning To Be Funny And Building Chemistry In Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

In Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Ewan McGregor plays a fly-fishing expert who's charged with helping a wealthy sheikh to introduce, well, salmon fishing to the Middle Eastern country of Yemen. Emily Blunt plays a woman who helps him, and Kristin Scott Thomas brings some of her gravitas as a newspaper editor who winds up covering the feel-good story